1-Describe how
education policies of the twentieth century attempted to force ethnic
groups to assimilate into Anglo-American culture or to systematically
exclude them from white society through segregation.2-Explain why
the racial education gap—separating whites and Asians, on the one hand,
and African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans, on the
other—has shrunk in recent years at the secondary level but has
increased at the postsecondary level.